After the Weekend

Saturday was busy. I went into work and sat down with the former curator of photographs who showed me how to enter stuff. We got halfway through all the things I needed to know in a morning. At midday I left to meet with people to take me out to Karitane for a memorial service for Grace Gardner.

I travelled with members of the Khamzin Tribe. There was a simple service for Grace in the Karitane Community Hall. Several people who knew her in the last year spoke, including her partner. The Khamzin Tribe danced, photos were shared and we ate together. We walked around the Huriwa Historic Reserve as she had once done with her partner, following its story, stopping to watch the gannets dive into the sea. We laid flowers around a native tree that they had planted together on the reserve. As we came home I learned about her death from the Tribe.

After church on Sunday I caught up with the little tasks for which I use the weekend. The season is getting colder and it has reached the point that I can air clothing outside, but I cannot get them dry. Now the weekend is over I can set my mind to little projects. The time to do them becomes limited as winter gets colder.